According to a latest study nutrients found in leafy vegetables make your mind 11 years younger.
The declination in memory and cognitive function is called dementia. It is one of the most deadliest detail of getting older. Recent studies reported that eating their vegetables appear to be more successful and prevent it.
Dr Martha Morris, of Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago, headed the study published in the journal Neurology.
“Adding a daily serving of green, leafy vegetables to your diet may be a simple way to foster your brain health.
“Projections show sharp increases in the percentage of people with dementia as the oldest age groups continue to grow in number, so effective strategies to prevent dementia are critical.” – she said.
Scientists at Rush University and Tufts University studied 1,000 people and discovered that those who said eating one to two daily servings of green leafy vegetables, such as kale, lettuce or spinach, had moderate rates of cognitive decline.
Researchers examined the eating habits of 960 people, with an average age of 81, who did not have dementia and followed them for an average of 4.7 years.
Dr James Pickett, led the research at the UK’s Alzheimer’s Society, stated the research did not directly analyze dementia, but it displayed that eating more of leafy green vegetables was good for neural health.
“A healthy diet rich in essential nutrients, combined with regular exercise and avoiding smoking, can help to reduce your risk of developing dementia,” he said.
“A healthy diet is good for your body,” Dr. Gayatri Devi, a neurologist specializing in memory disorders at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
“It keeps your arteries clean, reduces the risk for heart disease, reduces the risk for diabetes, and all that is good for your brain,” she said.
Morris and her team tried to optimize for other reasons that can accord for brain health as well as heart conditions, physical activity, mentally invigorating activities “like reading books and doing crosswords” and other factors. But the benefaction from these other factors is “always a concern in observational studies and can never be fully ruled out,” she reported.
Devi and Morris suggested to opposing taking supplements of the studied nutrients and advocate for integrating leafy greens instead. “It’s just so much easier and safer to get them from nature,” Devi said.
“The age of the test group, who were mostly white, means the results may not apply to younger adults and people from different ethnic groups,” Dr Morris said.